Today, Tom talks about the music and the myth behind it with Melinda O’Neal, and with Tom McCreight, a Loyola University of Maryland classics professor who sings in the Handel Choir.

Handel Choir of Baltimore’s presentation of Semele is Saturday at 7:30pm at the Church of the Redeemer in Baltimore. It will be preceded at 6:30 by a lecture from Towson University music professor Carl B. Schmidt and Johns Hopkins art history professor Stephen Campbell. Tickets are available at 410.366.6544 or online.